This document was designed to provide strategies and techniques for increasing sex fairness in vocational education to varied users (sex equity personnel, instructors, administrators, counselors, and curriculum planning personnel). The guide should aid vocational educators in overcoming sex bias and sex stereotyping by (1) creating awareness of…

These workshop materials are designed to aid recruiters of nontraditional vocational programs in publicizing their training opportunities. Information is included on convincing vocational educators to recruit nontraditional students, speaking effectively with journalists about program activities, and writing public relations materials. The…

This packet, part of the instructional materials for the Oregon apprenticeship program for millwright training, contains 12 modules covering human relations. The modules provide information on the following topics: communications skills, feedback, individual strengths, interpersonal conflicts, group problem solving, goal setting and decision…

This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings increase their skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating community involvement and public relations activities as a part of an overall career guidance program. The module is one of a series of competency-based guidance program training…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

Advances in computers and multimedia technology have changed traditional methods for learning and skills training. Online learning continues to play a major success of any academic program. Such learning can personalize learning needs for students, it can provide an environment where virtual reality techniques are used to create interactive…

This first in a series of ten learning modules on school-community relations is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers competency in selecting opportunities for contacting the public, and in selecting techniques to use during those contacts in order to inform the public about a vocational program or to promote a program.…

This eighteenth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in recognizing significant differences among students and in individualizing the instruction to reflect these differences. Introductory sections relate the competencies dealt with here to…

This last in a series of six learning modules on instructional evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in identifying the sources and techniques needed in order to plan a method of teacher evaluation which is logical, usable, and capable of improving teaching performance on a continuing basis. The…

This course in technical communications is one of 16 courses in the Energy Technology Series developed for an Energy Conservation-and-Use Technology curriculum. Intended for use in two-year postsecondary technical institutions to prepare technicians for employment, the courses are also useful in industry for updating employees in company-sponsored…

This course in instrumentation and controls is one of 16 courses in the Energy Technology Series developed for an Energy Conservation-and-Use Technology curriculum. Intended for use in two-year postsecondary technical institutions to prepare technicians for employment, the courses are also useful in industry for updating employees in…

The curriculum contained in this guide is one of a series developed to assist teachers in implementing prevocational exploration programs concerned with distribution and marketing occupations. It is designed to complement the West Virginia "Guide for Establishing Programs of Prevocational Exploration." The curriculum consists of 35…

Designed to provide pre- and inservice vocational education administrators with the skills necessary to manage vocational buildings and equipment, this competency-based learning module consists of an introduction and six sequential learning experiences. Each learning experience contains an overview with objectives and required and optional…

This Job Function Booklet (Arranging) is one of the 14 components (see note) of the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program, a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are…

A project was conducted to provide descriptive data regarding mid-career women in administration and to develop program materials based on these data. Specific project objectives were (1) to provide descriptive data identifying areas of concern for mid-career women in adminstration; (2) to review selected literature in the fields of the psychology…